Several big topics – the budget, tax reform, and criminal justice – will take center stage over the next two months at the state capitol. However, with relationships frayed after four legislative sessions in little more than a year, it's unclear if there's much political will-power to get things done.

Several big topics – the budget, tax reform, and criminal justice – will take center stage over the next two months at the state capitol. However, with relationships frayed after four legislative sessions in little more than a year, it's unclear if there's much political will-power to get things done.

In the Louisiana legislature, House Bill 86 was nixed by the same lawmaker who introduced it.More >>

In the Louisiana legislature, House Bill 86 was nixed by the same lawmaker who introduced it.More >>

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -

Two and a half years after a tragic accident on a gun range more than 1,000 miles away, a Louisiana lawmaker has filed a bill that would make it a crime to allow a child to shoot an Uzi submachine gun.

Rep. Barbara Norton, of Shreveport, hopes the third time is the charm for introducing such legislation.

But the bill is not without its critics.

And with so much at stake with the state budget during the legislative session that gets underway Monday, it's unclear how much traction Norton's bill might get.

It was Aug. 25, 2014, when firearms instructor Charles Vacca accidentally was fatally shot while teaching a 9-year-old girl how to shoot an Uzi in White Hills, Ariz.

Seven months later, Norton introduced a bill to ban those under age 13 from being able to shoot an Uzi.

She did so again last year.

Neither bill ever made it out of committee

"I just don't think when we send our children to school or to church, I don't think the first thing that they should be saying, 'I know how to shoot an Uzi now. I know how to shoot a machine gun now," explained Norton.

But she isn't giving up. She's filed a similar bill for this year's legislative session.

House Bill 67 calls for a penalty of up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for anyone found guilty of allowing a child under age 13 to fire an Uzi.

Norton compares letting a child shoot an Uzi to letting them drive a car.

"And you turn him or her loose at night and say, 'I trained you.' I can imagine how much dangerous that would be."

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The organization predicted 10 to 16 tropical systems, with five to nine becoming hurricanes. One to four of those hurricanes is predicted to develop into major hurricanes of Category 3 strength or above.